See exclusive world premieres from Random Acts, Channel 4’s weekly late night TV show featuring brilliant, beautiful, bewildering, dirty, dangerous and disruptive art from musicians, writers, animators, artists and other random creative types.
With each film clocking in around three minutes, this is a chance to experience a range of sublime mini-mindblowers from the Class of 2017, with the series commissioner and some of the writers and directors in attendance to discuss their work, including Babak Ganjei, Ross Sutherland and Jamie Whitby.
BABAK GANJEI, THE TASTE OF YOUR OWN FOOD
If you are aspirational and enjoy punching above your own weight, you could meet somebody perusing the cheese counter. Learn these and other dating tips with cartoonist Babak Ganjei, in his filmmaking debut.
Babak Ganjei (writer/director), Diyala Muir (animator)
JON RAFMAN, DREAM JOURNAL
Digital artist Jon Rafman is best known for his work on Google Street View, but here he invites us into a nightmare ripped straight from his subconscious and given a new and macabre digital life.
Jon Rafman c/o Seventeen Gallery
FRAN LOBO/CHARLOTTE LOWDELL, WAR
Unsigned singer-songwriter Fran Lobo has already found herself compared to Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone and Bjork in early reviews: this is her new single, War.
Fran Lobo (talent), Charlotte Lowdell (director), Martha McGuirk (producer)
SARINA NIHEI, RABBIT’S BLOOD
Miffy the Rabbit meets Tarantino-esque levels of violence in this disturbing second film from Tokyo-based animator Sarnia Nihei, whose first film Small People With Hats was hailed as "highly original, disturbing, and possibly the best animated thing you'll watch all year” by Vice.
Sarina Nihei (writer/director)
ROSS SUTHERLAND, FIVE PARTIES: TOGA PARTY
Based on the Five Parties episode of his hit podcast Imaginary Advice, performance poet Ross Sutherland presents the first of five parties: Toga Party. Will our hero’s classic interpretation of this basic fancy dress brief be enough to blow his supercilious love rival’s contribution out of the water?
Ross Sutherland (writer)
JAMIE WHITBY, ISLE FULL OF NOISES
A modern reimagining of Caliban's "Be not afeard" speech from The Tempest, shot with a hand-built drone lighting system designed designed to paint the night-time landscape with light. The film features a specially-commissioned voiceover by David Oyelowo (Selma, A United Kingdom) and performances by young up-and-comers Edward Kagutuzi and Michael Ajao, plus dance collective Sigh.
Jamie Whitby (director), Archie Stewart (producer)
Doors open for evening events at 18.30 for a complimentary drink in the Behind the Screen bar, accessed from the River Terrace entrance via Waterloo Bridge. Talks start at 19.00 and last approximately one hour.
Behind the Screen tickets give access to Behind the Screen events only. Tickets for film screenings must be purchased separately. In conjunction with a purchased ticket to Film4 Summer Screen, your Behind the Screen ticket gives you access to a reserved space in the courtyard for the main film.
